Tag Archives: Egypt

CAIRO : On Wednesday, the National Security Agency ordered the deportation of the Russian belly dancer Eicatrina Andreeva, known as Jawhara from Egypt. In a phone interview with the TV Program broadcasted on Satellite Channel Dream TV, Jawahra’s lawyer stated that the decision to deport Gawhara boiled down to the ...

CAIRO: The Giza Pyramids in Egypt saw a unusual spectacle yesterday evening where the world’s shortest woman and the world’s tallest man met up for an event organized by Egyptian Culture Ministry. Sultan Kösen a 35 year old farmer from Turkey, standing 2.51 meters tall and Jyoti Amge, an actress ...

CAIRO: The Egyptian army’s former chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Sami Anan, was detained in Cairo on Tuesday, three of his campaign organizers said, after the army summoned him for questioning over his intention to run for president. Egypt’s Interior Ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. The military ...

ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the United States and Israel on Friday of meddling in Iran after Turkey’s neighbour was gripped by several days of deadly unrest. A total of 21 people died and hundreds were arrested in the week-long protests which were the biggest challenge to the ...

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to three years in prison along with 19 other defendants for “insulting the judiciary,” his lawyer said. The other defendants include former members of parliament, activists and three journalists. Morsi had already been sentenced to a total of 45 years ...

WASHINGTON: With President Trump poised to do what no other president has been willing to do – move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem – leaders and analysts in the region warned Tuesday that it could spur insecurity and instability in a part of the world already beset by ...

A Russian archaeological team has discovered a well-preserved mummy from the Greco-Roman period in a wooden coffin south of Cairo, Egypt’s antiquities ministry said Tuesday. The discovery was made near New Fayoum city, about 80 kilometers south of the Egyptian capital, the ministry said in a statement. The team “found ...

CAIRO: An Egyptian singer was detained for four days pending further questioning for her performance in a video music deemed racy in the conservative country. Shaima Ahmad, whose artistic name is Shyma, was taken into custody on November 18 in her house in the Cairo quarter of al Nuzah in ...

CAIRO: Laura Plummer, 33, from Hull a British tourist she is facing the death penalty in Egypt for because she was carrying painkillers in her suitcase. As she claims the authorities of Egypt forced her after her confession to sign a 38-page Arabic confession beforen they locked her in a tiny cell ...

DOOMSDAY could be sooner than you think if you are to believe conspiracy theorists claiming a planet will collide with Earth on September 23. That’s this coming Saturday in case you had any last minute things to get done. Bible passages apparently supporting a centuries’ old prediction of the end ...